Week of August 5 to August 12, 2026
This Week at a Glance
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6-Cyber on August 10, a purpose-trained security model behind its Daybreak Red approval gate, priced at $12.50 per million input tokens and $75 per million output.
Meta returned to open weights with Muse Glimmer on August 10, a 30-billion-parameter Apache 2.0 model that runs on a single 24GB consumer GPU and targets local agent workflows.
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5 on August 8, and Alibaba shipped Qwen3.8-Max on August 3, keeping the release calendar full outside the two headline drops.
